Custom Home Design by Nina Lichtenstein

Custom Home Design by Nina Lichtenstein Boutique Interior Design Firm specializing in custom, luxury renovations, new builds, and furnishings. Inspired by Nature. Rooted in Family.

Pleased to be featured in Homes and Gardens Magazine highlighting a Hamptons-style lamp designed by Martha Stewart for h...
09/05/2026

Pleased to be featured in Homes and Gardens Magazine highlighting a Hamptons-style lamp designed by Martha Stewart for her newest T.J. Maxx collection.

Its simple blue stripe shows how just the right amount of pattern can capture the easy coastal feel of Hamptons style.

Thank you to the writers and editors of Homes and Gardens Magazine.

Click the link below or head to my stories to read the full article:

https://www.homesandgardens.com/celebrity-homes/martha-stewart-hamptons-chic-lamp





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Pleased to be featured in The Spruce sharing how thoughtful paint choices can help brighten rooms with limited natural l...
09/04/2026

Pleased to be featured in The Spruce sharing how thoughtful paint choices can help brighten rooms with limited natural light.

From nature-inspired hues to warmer, more saturated tones, the right colors can transform the way a darker space looks and feels while creating a stronger connection to the outdoors.

Thank you to the writers and editors of The Spruce.

Click the link below or head to my stories to read the full article:

https://www.thespruce.com/paint-colors-for-dark-rooms-11996192




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Until it’s time to share the special announcement, I’m popping on to introduce you to this week’s animal friends, who co...
09/03/2026

Until it’s time to share the special announcement, I’m popping on to introduce you to this week’s animal friends, who continue to cement my status as an accidental Disney princess. 😂

First up: the wild turkeys. 🦃🦃🦃🦃

A complete surprise on my drive to the train station. Naturally, I had to stop and document them (and by “stop,” I mean make a U-turn because apparently I now pull over for wildlife). I later joked to my kids, “Wait…I thought I left you four at home.” 😂

Wild turkeys are a pretty rare sighting for me, so I’m always excited when I spot them. The last one I saw ran across my own street directly in front of me, and let’s just say that encounter involved slightly less Disney princess energy and slightly more “please don’t come at me.” 😂

Next up: Momma Deer and one of her twin fawns, casually treating my landscaping like an all-you-can-eat buffet. 🦌🌿

They’ve been visiting all week, happily eating their way around my property. But then they discovered my poor little cherry tree.

I never interfere with my animal visitors, but I noticed the bare lower branches from prior feasts and finally lightly tapped on the glass as if to say, “Excuse me. Could we maybe eat ANYTHING else on the property?”

Momma Deer stopped.

Turned.

And GLARED at me. 😂

The audacity of interrupting her lunch on HER property.

Message received.

Apparently Daddy Deer was feeling left out because, as I was walking and writing this, HE ran out right in front of me! 😂 He had already made an appearance earlier in the week, but clearly he wanted to make sure he got equal billing with the rest of the family.

You made the cut, Dad. 🦌😂

And then we have the bunnies. 🐇

They are EVERYWHERE. Morning. Night. Doesn’t matter.

Pull into the driveway: boom, bunny.

Head outside to leave: boom, bunny.

Look out the window: boom, bunny.

Turn around: probably another bunny.
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Well… I didn’t see this one coming. 👀There’s a reason I’ve been smiling about Thursday.You’ll find out soon. ❤️ ...
09/01/2026

Well… I didn’t see this one coming. 👀

There’s a reason I’ve been smiling about Thursday.

You’ll find out soon. ❤️

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Pleased to be featured in Homes and Gardens Magazine highlighting Jackie Kennedy’s 1970s NYC apartment and what it can t...
08/31/2026

Pleased to be featured in Homes and Gardens Magazine highlighting Jackie Kennedy’s 1970s NYC apartment and what it can teach us about coffee table styling.

Books are great, but adding natural finds like sticks, rocks, stones, shells, and flowers can bring so much more interest, personality, and life to a room.

Thank you to the writers and editors of Homes and Gardens Magazine.

Click the link below or head to my stories to read the full article:

https://www.homesandgardens.com/celebrity-homes/jackie-kennedy-coffee-table-styling





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A little confession: there’s one word I have always shied away from using to describe myself on social media.Expert.Not ...
08/29/2026

A little confession: there’s one word I have always shied away from using to describe myself on social media.

Expert.

Not because I don’t believe in the work I do or the knowledge I’ve worked hard to build, but because I’ve always felt that “expert” isn’t a title you give yourself. It’s something others come to recognize in you through your work, your experience, what you contribute, and the way you show up over time.

Maybe part of my hesitation with the word is that I never want to feel finished learning. The more I learn about design, science, nature, human experience, and the connections between them, the more questions I have. I hope that never changes.

I’m not in this business for acclaim or self-promotion. I’m here because I believe design has the power to positively transform people’s lives. Design changed my own life, and once I understood just how powerful our environments can be in shaping how we feel, function, and experience the world, I couldn’t stop there. I wanted to understand more, learn more, and use what I was learning to help others. That belief has been at the center of everything I’ve built, studied, designed, spoken about, and continued to pursue.

Because there will be days when the recognition isn’t there.

There will be ideas that don’t work out, opportunities that don’t happen, doors that don’t open, and stretches when you are putting far more into something than you are getting back. If the only thing carrying you forward is recognition or financial reward, those stretches can become very difficult to move through.

Purpose gives you something else to hold onto.

Purpose doesn’t remove the obstacles. It doesn’t make rejection sting less, make the uncertain stretches disappear, or guarantee that the work will pay off in the way you hoped. But it gives you a reason to keep showing up anyway.
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Pleased to be featured in Homes and Gardens Magazine highlighting Sylvester Stallone’s 1980s ranch-style living room and...
08/29/2026

Pleased to be featured in Homes and Gardens Magazine highlighting Sylvester Stallone’s 1980s ranch-style living room and how elements of the space connect to the Rich Ranch style we’re seeing today.

By balancing rustic, nature-inspired materials and classic Western details with lighter, more refined elements, ranch style can feel warm, comfortable, and right at home in modern interiors.

Thank you to the writers and editors of Homes and Gardens Magazine.

Click the link below or head to my stories to read the full article:

https://www.homesandgardens.com/celebrity-homes/sylvester-stallone-ranch-style-living-room





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It’s official official! My final, official Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS) certificate has arrived. ❤️I share...
08/27/2026

It’s official official! My final, official Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS) certificate has arrived. ❤️

I shared recently that I earned my CAPS designation after completing CAPS I, II and III through the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), along with the three certificates marking each part of the program. Now the final certificate bringing it all together is officially in hand!

Every now and then, I like to skip the professional photos and put up a casual selfie of everyday me. So here I am, at home, certificate in hand, exactly as I am on an ordinary day. ❤️ And really, where else should an Aging-in-Place Specialist take this photo? 😂

In honor of pairing this post with Ella Langley’s “Excuse the Mess,” I might as well acknowledge the real life happening outside the frame, too. Four kids, a whole lot of work, plenty of travel and more things I want to do than there ever seem to be hours in a day. And lately, my kids have been rotating their pillow-and-blanket forts between the living room, dining room and various other locations around the house, so apparently I’m not the only designer around here. Their “house” just happens to have a much more flexible floor plan than mine. 😂 I tend to have a bit of a fire in my chest when it comes to taking things on, and I certainly don’t pretend to do all of it perfectly. Sometimes the house reflects that. 😂❤️

Ironically, the last time I launched into a whirlwind cleaning session, it was because I was getting the house ready to shoot a commercial, and I fell down the stairs and ended up injured with a concussion. So these days, even cleaning comes with a little more mindfulness. On the upside, having a commercial ready to go has turned out to be the most wonderful thing because I can schedule my own “commercial breaks” on social media whenever life gets especially crazy. 😂 That experience also gave me a very personal reminder that falls, temporary limitations and changes in how we move through our homes aren’t concerns reserved for a certain age. Life can change how we interact with our surroundings in an instant.
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